Debate Land Public Forum & Lincoln Douglas Rankings

Debate Land is proud to offer comprehensive national circuit rankings for Public Forum and Lincoln-Douglas debate. We believe that by providing comprehensive and transparent rankings, we can foster a more inclusive, legitimate, and competitive debate community. Debate Land uses a proprietary metric of ranking debaters colloquially known as the OTR Score. It awards points based on scaled tournament attendance, high performance (deep elimination round runs), and success against difficult opponents. Every system has flaws, but the OTR 3.0 Score is an open-source metric widely available to debaters.

Last Updated:  

December 17, 2025

1) The first 500 teams are displayed. For full results, see Debate Land.
2) Read our methodology.
3) View results from past years.

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NSD Alumni represent 44 of the top 100 teams in the United States!

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

101

Cameron Buhl

0.920

103

Nico Ignatowich

0.894

104

Owen Sack

0.887

105

Meera Shah

0.884

106

Michael Meng

0.875

107

Daniel Baek

0.869

108

Kevin Iwanski

0.866

109

Paul Buermann

0.850

110

Isaac Love

0.848

111

Alicia Zihenni

0.847

112

Gabrielle Torrence

0.842

114

Taejun Kim

0.831

115

Samuel Rubinstein

0.828

116

Karenna Mehta

0.821

117

Atharv Gandhi

0.817

119

Mina Hu

0.803

120

Olivia Amir

0.801

121

Vincent Wang

0.778

122

Emanuel Sasson

0.774

123

Gauri Gupta

0.773

124

Sarita Satynarayana

0.768

125

Leah Fischer

0.765

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NSD Alumni represent 48 of the top 100 teams in the United States!

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

201

Ngawang Namgyal & Odessa MuA+-oz

0.458

202

Charlie Alpert & Isaac Cohen

0.457

203

Willow Tham & Mahati Mudgal

0.454

204

William Napoli & Phil Liew

0.454

205

Adeena Hussain & Aadi Reddy

0.450

206

Noah Lee & Jeffrey Kim

0.446

207

Graham Turk & Ike Turk

0.445

208

Thomas Mastella & Grayson Zeigler

0.434

209

Ian Ngo & Julian Carlile

0.433

210

Zaid Anwar & Nolan Samuels

0.432

211

Leyla Nurullayeva & Zaara Katyal

0.431

212

Callaway Weeks & Grant Wiessner

0.428

213

Omar Dahabra & Ryon Jemail

0.425

214

Anuraa Venkat & Aanya Mohta

0.419

215

Brandon Kim & Julian Song

0.418

216

Daren Hu & Felix Shaitelman

0.414

217

Thanish Lankella & Henry Riley

0.413

218

Chloe Huang & Lucas Kwok

0.413

219

Naitik Narang & Anya Hira

0.411

220

Ian Ngo & Ethan Wan

0.410

221

Mackenzie Larson & Anika Narayanan

0.410

222

Kedaar Garg & Tommy Hughes

0.408

223

Alex Cai & Emily Mei

0.403

224

Aanya Mohta & Jiseung Jung

0.398

225

Moumita Balakundhi & Aayan Hanif

0.397